the knife. i yelled i don t know how many times. reporter: laquan mcdonald s uncle today delivering a message to the former cop in the voice of his dead nephew. why should this person who has ended my life forever be free when i m dead forever? reporter: van dyke s wife also taking the stand pleading for leniency. there was no malice, no hatred on that night. it was simply a man doing his job. reporter: van dyke, the final person to speak before the judge s decision. the last thing i ever wanted to do especially on october 20, 2014, was to shoot laquan mcdonald. david, van dyke could face up to 96 years behind bars. the judge, as you heard there, senting him to 81 months. less than seven years. the judge in a case like this has a lot of discretion. so many in this city have been waiting years for this decision. david? alex perez tonight. thank you. there is new reporting after
van dyke, has been charged with first degree murder. what happened on october 20, 2014, should snenever have happened. supervision and leadership in the police department and the oversight agencies that were in place failed. and that has to change. i am the mayor. as i said the other day, i own it. i take responsibility for what happened because it happened on my watch. that was mayor rahm emanuel this morning. just moments ago, though, he did address directly the protesters amassing in the streets of chicago. right now, let s listen to that. what do you tell those people who are in the street as we speak demanding your resignation
fair riting out criminal conduct. but i won t comment on this specific investigation. this is a question for both of you, if you will. part of the criticism of this case has been how long it s taken for any measure of justice to be taken as a result of what happened in that incident. my understanding is that the video, the big piece of evidence, the video, was turned over to federal authorities nine days after it happened. can you confirm that and can you tell us what has taken this long? i m not going to speak to time lines specifically what evidence we received and when we received it during the course of the investigation. what i will say is that we have pursued all of the facts and circumstances relevant to mr. mcdonald s death on october 20, 2014 with vigor, with earnestness, with passion as we approach any important investigative matter in chicago.
protesters back on the streets of chicago as the nation continues to react to the video of the shooting death of 17-year-old laquan who died on october 20, 2014 last year, after chicago police officer, jason van dyke, shot him 16 times. yesterday, officer van dyke was charged with first-degree murder. today, his record as a police officer is coming under new scrutiny. the 14-year veteran, according to his lawyer had zero discipline on his record. that part appears to be true. van dyke had not been disciplined for complaints filed prior to the mcdonald shooting. that does not mean there weren t complaints. according to published reports, there are between 17 and 20 complaints, 15 of which were resolved with no discipline. according to chicago tribune, one complaint nant, ed nance, claimed van dyke handcuffed him so violently during a 2007 traffic stop, he seriously
come out by wednesday. yesterday, that video was released and now, we can show it to you and i want to warn, for anyone who hasn t seen this, this may be upsetting but here is the dash cam video of what transpired on october 20, 2014. as you can see there, you can see that this 17-year-old, laquan, is shot, he falls to the ground and then it seems that he is shot several more times while he is on the ground. what we have understand is that jason van dyke, the officer in question here, he was charged with first-degree murder yesterday. he is being held without bond. his lawyer says that he felt that he was in danger and that is why he shot so many times, but many people wanting to see this video, wanting to see what happened here. now, across the city of chicago, people were bracing for a protest. there were protests that ran